Hematology
So I got my diploma a year ago and now I’m working in a lab focused on hematology/immunohematology. I’m mostly writing this blog for myself and all the facts I don’t specifically credit are either from my old school scripts or based on experience.
I feel very confident about immunohematology since it is the most logical subject to me and I wrote my final paper about it. So, since this should benefit me - I’ll leave that for whenever I don’t feel like doing a lot of research.
I’ll mostly focus on hematology, specifically the methodology in the different tests and cell morphology in microscopy. Bear with me with the images, it is hard to find any good ones online.
I’ll use these pages for reference:
Sysmex - one of the main competitors for hematology analyzers --> The case studies are especially helpful, but there are also just tables for the different cells
Onkopedia --> I think this is aimed at doctors, it’s a very clinical view
Khan-academy --> If you’re looking for online study help, you should be familiar with the Khan academy. Again, this is more of a clinical/theoretical view
Institute for tropical diseases in Switzerland --> I’ll actually do a course there in january and will revisit blood parasites then. It does have a virtual microscope for parasites in general, but that would be more interesting for microbiology.
Crash Course - Anatomy --> Crash Course has a lot of accurate videos with a nice visualization of more complex ideas. Just so happens to feature some anatomy vids too. I’d recommend the ones on ‘Blood’ and the ‘Immune System’.
I also have a playlist on youtube where I add stuff, as I stumble upon it. Right now it’s mostly Crash Course and Khanacademy. I DO watch them critically before adding anything. Any video on this list is correct as far as I can tell, might be omitting interesting details, but not giving false information. My knowledge is limited on the clinical side of things though and there might be outdated therapy suggestions etc. --> My playlist
There might be the occasional paper that inspires me to write a post. I will link to it on pubmed then. (not encouraging anyone to use scihub.. why would I do that.. that’s not nice)